Herman von Klempt
Herman von Klempt is a male comic supervillain who features in Hellboy.
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Biography
Herman von Klempt was born in 1885, in Frankfurt, Germany. Around ten years old, von Klempt was keenly interested in cybernetics in which he killed the family cat and tried to improve its design by integrating clock parts into its body. His behavior deeply frightened his family in which they were glad to be rid of him when attended medical school in Berlin. At Berlin, von Klempt earned a reputation for his obessive behavior among his peers, and became attached to his colleague Karl Ruprect Kroenen. Although the two men apparently shared similar ideas, von Klempt regarded Kroenen as little more than a resource as his wealth and social connections provided him the economic backing for research von Klempt could never otherwise have performed.
In 1935, von Klempt along with Kroenen were invited by Heinrich Himmler to join the Sonnenrad Society. Shortly after joining the Sonnenrad Society, von Klempt made use of the organization's resources to develop his own projects such as the Kriegaffe project. In 1936, von Klempt was nearly killed in a laboratory explosion in which most of his body was destroyed. His life was saved by Kroenen, who managed to keep von Klempt's head alive in a bell jar. In 1937, Grigori Rasputin recruited several members of the Sonnenrad Society, including Kroenen, as his disciples in Project Ragna Rok. Von Klempt strongly and distastefully refused of joining Rasputin, whom von Klempt viewed him as a fraud and his ideals meaningless. In 1937, Grigori Rasputin recruited several members of the Sonnenrad Society, including Kroenen, as his disciples in Project Ragna Rok. Von Klempt strongly and distatefully refused of joining Rasputin, whom von Klempt viewed him as a fraud and his ideals meaningless.
In 1939, Von Klempt participated in the Nazi Space Program in which to make contact with non-corporeal beings in outer space. These beings promised that, if a human shell was sent into space to provide a host for them, it would return to Earth powerful enough to destroy the Nazis' enemies. The Nazis prepared to launch into space the remains of Dr. Ernst Oeming, a German physicist often referred to as the "Nazi Einstein," who had been assassinated by a car bomb earlier that year, from their base in Hunte Castle in Austria. On the night of March 20, 1939, the date Oeming's body was to be launched, the American hero The Lobster led a group of American troops in an attack on Hunte Castle. In a state of panic, the Nazis launched Oeming's vessel before the castle roof's doors could open. Although the rocket cleared the castle and made it into space, the explosion resulted in the immediate incineration of everyone inside the castle save von Klempt. When Nazi Germany fell to the Allies, von Klempt retreated to a secret base hidden under Berlin. Taking the vampires from Project Vampir Sturm, von Klempt hoped to destroy America with a plague of vampires. In 1946, Trevor Bruttenholm and the B.P.R.D. discovered his lair. Von Klempt quickly launched a rocket full of vampires at America before Bruttenholm could stop him. With some help Bruttenholm was able to destroy the rocket taking with it the vampires and von Klempt. Though Bruttenholm thought von Kelmpt had been destroyed, he would resurface some six years later.
At some point, von Klempt created a secret laboratory beneath an old Portuguese prisoner in Terroso, Brazil. In 1952, during Hellboy's first mission for the B.P.R.D., von Klempt built an undead army and tried to resurrect the Third Reich. His plans came to an end thanks to Hellboy, a small group of B.P.R.D. agents, and a reanimated corpse mutated by an Ogdru Hem spirit. Von Klempt evaded capture when his head was snatched away by one of his ape experiments. In 1959, von Klempt showed up again in Brazil, this time in the jungles near Macapa. It was Hellboy that found him while investigating the disappearance of peasant girls in the area. In the fight that ensued, Hellboy defeated von Klempt and his Kriegaffe, whom von Klempt called "Brutus". Von Klempt was not be seen for decades.
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Notes
- Herman von Klempt was created by Mike Mignola where he made his first appearance in Comic's Buyers Guide v1 #1070 (May, 1994).
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- Comic's Buyers Guide v1: (1994)
- Hellboy:
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